While U.S. Religious Right leaders are preparing to gather in Washington this week for the Values Voter Summit to strategize about holding onto the political power they wield in the era of Trump, anti-equality activist Brian Brown and some of his allies spent this past weekend in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, where culture warriors from around the world gathered to make plans for resisting and reversing LGBTQ equality and access to safe and legal abortion on a global scale.

Among the other U.S. Religious Right activists taking part were Brown’s colleague Allan Carlson, the Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg, Sharon Slater of Family Watch International, and Utah-based evangelical activist Greg Johnson. Also on the schedule were several American academics, including Catholic University of America’s Pat Fagan, Brigham Young’s Tim Rarick, and Patrick Henry College’s Stephen Baskerville.

In addition to leading the anti-LGBTQ National Organization for Marriage, Brown heads the International Organization for the Family, which counts the World Congress of Families as one of its projects. WCF generally hosts an annual global summit and several regionalgatherings every year, where organizations share experiences and strategies. The summit in Moldova marked the third year in a row that the conference was held in an Eastern European country–following Georgia and Hungary–and it featured an “East meets West” theme. Read more via Right Wing Watch